vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-0898: Use of Externally-Controlled Format String

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/15/2017
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
10/01/2024

Description

Ruby before 2.4.2, 2.3.5, and 2.2.8 is vulnerable to a malicious format string which contains a precious specifier (*) with a huge minus value. Such situation can lead to a buffer overrun, resulting in a heap memory corruption or an information disclosure from the heap.

Solution(s)

alpine-linux-upgrade-rubyalpine-linux-upgrade-ruby2.2
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